Status
Success
Rocket
Vehicles
Mission Details
Iridium-6
Five Iridium Next satellites will help upgrade the Iridium Constellation. The launch is one of eight that Iridium has purchased from SpaceX. In total, 75 satellites will be launched.
Payloads: 5
Total Mass: 4,800.0 kg
Polar Orbit
GRACE-FO
The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission is a partnership between NASA and the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ). GRACE-FO is a successor to the original GRACE mission, which orbited Earth from 2002-2017. GRACE-FO will carry on the extremely successful work of its predecessor while testing a new technology designed to dramatically improve the already remarkable precision of its measurement system.
Payloads: 2
Total Mass: 1,160.0 kg
Polar Orbit
Location
SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA
Stats
2018
47th orbital launch attempt
SpaceX
62nd mission
10th mission of 2018
56th successful mission
28th consecutive successful mission
Falcon 9
56th mission
9th mission of 2018
53rd successful mission
27th consecutive successful mission